Homeland Insecurity
I have never been terrified of school before, for this I am privileged. I have never lived through wartime in my homeland. I was a month away from turning five years old when the Twin Towers were struck on 9/11, far too young to feel the fear and confusion that gripped my country for months afterwards. However, my generation is living through a different fear, fear of a beast that is gaining power faster than ever before. A monster that my parents had seen once, maybe twice in their lives before, an evil that doesn’t have to permeate our society from an outside source, and something my grandparents cannot fully comprehend; the college shooter.
On Tuesday October 2nd, 2015, nine students were killed at an Oregon …show more content…
This mainly started in World War I, when they were requested to help the Allies fight against the Central Powers. In order to persuade the millions of Americans hesitant to join Europe’s Great War, the US began making propaganda posters which dehumanized the enemy, showing the German army as apes waiting to rape and kill innocent wives and children. This tactic of dehumanizing the enemy would prove fruitful for American foreign policy for many years to come. The current crisis in the Middle East that led to the nation’s largest terrorist attack started all the way back in 1945, when the US promised Saudi Arabia protection in exchange for cheaper oil. Because of this greed, the US is now in the midst of a war in the Middle East involving boundary lines and religions that they should have no part in. A bargain had been made, the match lit, and now Americans are …show more content…
Fatal shootings occur so often in the United States that international humanitarian intervention has even been suggested. School shootings alone have claimed more American lives than high profile terror attacks like the Boston marathon bombings or the events of September 11, 2011, yet they don't earn the same title as terrorist attacks. American opinions on these homeland attacks boil down to one opinion; the restrictions of gun laws. Those in support of constricting gun laws claim these attacks are all politically or religiously motivated, while those in The National Rifle Association and others in the pro-gun movement promote the notion that individuals have the right under the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution to shoot elected officials, police officers, and military personnel if they think the government has become “tyrannical. If these shooters had Islamic surnames they would almost certainly be labeled terrorists, advocates argue, as was the case with the 2009 Fort Hood shootings. “If muslims committed half, or even one out of every four of these incidents, Americans would frame the acts as a national security issue and use the word ‘terrorism,’” said Ladd Everitt, director of communications for the Coalition to Stop Gun
I have never been terrified of school before, for this I am privileged. I have never lived through wartime in my homeland. I was a month away from turning five years old when the Twin Towers were struck on 9/11, far too young to feel the fear and confusion that gripped my country for months afterwards. However, my generation is living through a different fear, fear of a beast that is gaining power faster than ever before. A monster that my parents had seen once, maybe twice in their lives before, an evil that doesn’t have to permeate our society from an outside source, and something my grandparents cannot fully comprehend; the college shooter.
On Tuesday October 2nd, 2015, nine students were killed at an Oregon …show more content…
This mainly started in World War I, when they were requested to help the Allies fight against the Central Powers. In order to persuade the millions of Americans hesitant to join Europe’s Great War, the US began making propaganda posters which dehumanized the enemy, showing the German army as apes waiting to rape and kill innocent wives and children. This tactic of dehumanizing the enemy would prove fruitful for American foreign policy for many years to come. The current crisis in the Middle East that led to the nation’s largest terrorist attack started all the way back in 1945, when the US promised Saudi Arabia protection in exchange for cheaper oil. Because of this greed, the US is now in the midst of a war in the Middle East involving boundary lines and religions that they should have no part in. A bargain had been made, the match lit, and now Americans are …show more content…
Fatal shootings occur so often in the United States that international humanitarian intervention has even been suggested. School shootings alone have claimed more American lives than high profile terror attacks like the Boston marathon bombings or the events of September 11, 2011, yet they don't earn the same title as terrorist attacks. American opinions on these homeland attacks boil down to one opinion; the restrictions of gun laws. Those in support of constricting gun laws claim these attacks are all politically or religiously motivated, while those in The National Rifle Association and others in the pro-gun movement promote the notion that individuals have the right under the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution to shoot elected officials, police officers, and military personnel if they think the government has become “tyrannical. If these shooters had Islamic surnames they would almost certainly be labeled terrorists, advocates argue, as was the case with the 2009 Fort Hood shootings. “If muslims committed half, or even one out of every four of these incidents, Americans would frame the acts as a national security issue and use the word ‘terrorism,’” said Ladd Everitt, director of communications for the Coalition to Stop Gun